I'd say good, seems most of you are saying bad. Why? Those 3 things seem fine to me.

I mean under just water you are undoubtedly causing damage to the chip if this voltage is coursing through it 24/7. Honestly you should bring your volts under 1.4v or at least 1.45v.

Can I ask what programs you are using that you need this kind of clock speed?

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Originally Posted by pangeltveit

not really, they degrade faster with higher than normal voltage.
no matter how cold or warm they ar e (really slow on negative celcius though)

Well heat is a measure of energy and electron migration occurs when there is more energy around the chip and thus by running at Sub Zero temperatures you are decrease the overall energy present and lessening the effect of electron migration. Even so LN2 is usually only used for benching not 24/7.Edited by tconroy135 - 1/25/11 at 9:19am

Also, I've been thinking of ordering the UD7 and returning the UD4. What do you think about this move??

I wouldn't suggest it... I've been playing with the UD7 and the BIOS support right now is terrible.

It will boot one moment, run Prime and be fully stable, and the boot cycle after a restart. After a few cycles, even after clearing the CMOS (which doesn't even have a button on the back?!), it will reflash your BIOS (you have no options), getting rid of all the settings you made. You also have to flash the BIOS using the newest beta version of @BIOS as you cannot flash from the BIOS itself right now (that feature is totally broken). ET6 requires a restart for almost everything as well.

Basically, I really wish I'd gone with the Maximus IV Extreme. The UD7 is bugged and effectively useless because of it. Half the time it won't even boot if AHCI is enabled...

Hambone, there's no way I'd run 1.56V for a 24/7 setting unless it loaded between -50Â°C up to maybe 20Â°C. Benching, absolutely, but not 24/7.

Well heat is a measure of energy and electron migration occurs when there is more energy around the chip and thus by running at Sub Zero temperatures you are decrease the overall energy present and lessening the effect of electron migration. Even so LN2 is usually only used for benching not 24/7.

I mean under just water you are undoubtedly causing damage to the chip if this voltage is coursing through it 24/7. Honestly you should bring your volts under 1.4v or at least 1.45v.

Can I ask what programs you are using that you need this kind of clock speed?

Well heat is a measure of energy and electron migration occurs when there is more energy around the chip and thus by running at Sub Zero temperatures you are decrease the overall energy present and lessening the effect of electron migration. Even so LN2 is usually only used for benching not 24/7.

I use this for benching and secondary gaming. Mainly for benching and going as far as I can. It's my test bench, and the main purpose was to push cpu's as far as I can.

If I could run 5.2ghz for the time I have this, I would like to. I won't have it longer than it takes for IB to come out. I'll be upgrading to that when it does.

So I'm looking at about 8 months of use, then it's gone.

Everything is going faster the higher I clock it. When booting up at 4.7ghz, you see the windows logo come all the way up and then shines, then you see the blue welcome screen, then the desktop.

With it at 5ghz, the windows logo doesn't reach the point where it shines, you see no blue welcome screen. Just straight to the desktop.

At 5.2ghz the windows logo barely makes it half way and then your at the desktop. Boot time's are insane on this platform with a C300 SSD.

The higher I clock it, the higher the FPS is in games that don't use multiple cores. With Dirt 2, for every 100mhz I go up, the min FPS goes up about 5fps. So for that extra 200mhz, it goes up 11fps.